The Last Full Measure: A Novel of the Civil War (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780345404916)

In the Pulitzer prize-winning classic The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara created the finest Civil War novel of our time. In the bestselling Gods and Generals, Shaara's son, Jeff, brilliantly sustained his father's vision, telling the epic story of the events culminating in the Battle of Gettysburg. Now, Jeff Shaara brings this legendary father-son trilogy to its stunning conclusion in a novel that brings to life the final two years of the Civil War.

As The Last Full Measure opens, Gettysburg is past and the war advances to its third brutal year. On the Union side, the gulf between the politicians in Washington and the generals in the field yawns ever wider. Never has the cumbersome Union Army so desperately needed a decisive, hard-nosed leader. It is at this critical moment that Lincoln places Ulysses S. Grant in command--and turns the tide of war.

For Robert E. Lee, Gettysburg was an unspeakable disaster--compounded by the shattering loss of the fiery Stonewall Jackson two months before. Lee knows better than anyone that the South cannot survive a war of attrition. But with the total devotion of his generals--Longstreet, Hill, Stuart--and his unswerving faith in God, Lee is determined to fight to the bitter end.

Here too is Joshua Chamberlain, the college professor who emerged as the Union hero of Gettysburg--and who will rise to become one of the greatest figures of the Civil War.

Battle by staggering battle, Shaara dramatizes the escalating confrontation between Lee and Grant--complicated, heroic, deeply troubled men. From the costly Battle of the Wilderness to the agonizing siege of Petersburg to Lee's epoch-making surrender at Appomattox, Shaara portrays the riveting conclusion of the Civil War through the minds and hearts of the individuals who gave their last full measure.

Full of human passion and the spellbinding truth of history, The Last Full Measure is the fitting capstone to a magnificent literary trilogy.

Author: Jeff Shaara
ISBN-10: 0345404912
ISBN-13: 9780345404916
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Language: English
Published: 05/19/1998
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.02lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.68w x 1.47d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.3
Point Value: 38
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 69036 / Last Full Measure


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 02/15/1998 pg. 124
Publishers Weekly 04/20/1998 pg. 44
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/1998 pg. 522
Booklist 05/01/1998 pg. 1478
Library Journal 06/01/1998 pg. 158
Library Journal 02/15/1998
Library Journal 06/01/1998